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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

Gavin de Beer

Gavin de Beer publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Archeology and Anthropology, on topics such as Evolution and Science Education, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Classical Antiquity Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#868,879
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#71,562
of 367,258
Works
60
Citations
1k
Citations per work
17.1
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 21% in History and Philosophy of Science
Gavin de Beer

What does Gavin de Beer research?

Gavin de Beer's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (37%), Social Sciences (6%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Everything else: 26 works · 43.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 42.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 22 works · 37.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 16 works · 26.9% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 10.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 5.6% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 5.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 9.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 4.6% of their workPaleontology: 3 works · 4.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 4.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 works · 4.6% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 4.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 4.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGavin de Beer60works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences43%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else2643.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities2237.1%
    2. Social Sciences35.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences34.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy34.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences34.6%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science27% of their works
  2. 2Archeology10% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology6% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gavin de Beer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Acceptance, Evolutionary Theory, Ancient Rome, Genetic Diversity, Greek Literature, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis and Archaeoastronomy.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Acceptance231 topic
  2. Evolutionary Theory231 topic
  3. Ancient Rome51 topic
  4. Genetic Diversity52 topics
  5. Greek Literature51 topic
  6. Mammal Evolution51 topic
  7. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis51 topic
  8. Archaeoastronomy31 topic
  9. Cultural Landscapes31 topic
  10. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  11. Genetic Structure31 topic
  12. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  13. Population Genetics31 topic
  14. Genome Evolution21 topic
  15. Infertility21 topic
  16. Polyploidy21 topic
  17. Reproductive Technologies21 topic

Where does Gavin de Beer work?

Gavin de Beer's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Gavin de Beer have?

OpenAlex counts 60 works and 1,026 citations for Gavin de Beer, an h-index of 11, ranking #868,879 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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